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Hi everybody!

I'm new here, and was drawn to the forum by all of the great PCB-clone projects. I've done my own clone of the ColecoVision (which I still have to get around to releasing publicly; waiting on a friend to finish building his) and I keep getting tempted to dive back in for another round with a different machine.

The board replicas I'm considering doing in the next couple years are the Sharp X68000 ACE I/O board (mine will pull pads and traces if you look at it sideways, from a combination of battery and water damage) and some of the harder-to-find peripheral cards for the NEC PC-8801 and PC-6001. I also just fixed a Watara Supervision, and I'm wondering if it would be possible to build a replica with off-the-shelf chips instead of their finicky globtops.

As for Ataris specifically, I have a pair of 1040STFs that occasionally need a little bit of work, and an SC1224 monitor that needs a lot of work. I hope to eventually get everything working well, and get a RAM upgrade pushed into the better of the two machines so I can play Rude Llamatron on real hardware.
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:welcomewave:
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Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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:welcomewave:
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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Hello from Canada

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Welcome on board!
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